N.Y. Arts and Cultural Affairs Law § 15.13: Construction

§ 15.13. Construction. 1. The rights, liabilities and remedies created

by this article shall be construed to be in addition to and not in

substitution, exclusion or displacement of other rights, liabilities and

remedies provided by law, except where such construction would, as a

matter of law, be unreasonable.

2. Whenever an artist sells or consigns a multiple of his own

creation, the artist shall incur the obligations prescribed by this

article for an art merchant, but an artist shall not otherwise be

regarded as an art merchant.

3. An artist or merchant who consigns a multiple to a merchant for the

purpose of effecting a sale of the multiple shall have no liability to a

purchaser under this article if such consignor, as to the consignee, has

complied with the provisions of this article.

4. When a merchant has agreed to sell a multiple on behalf of a

consignor, who is not an art merchant, or when an artist has not

consigned a multiple to a merchant, but the merchant has agreed to act

as the agent for an artist for the purpose of supplying the information

required by this article, such merchant shall incur liabilities of other

merchants prescribed by this article as to a purchaser.

5. When an art merchant or merchant is liable to a purchaser pursuant

to the provisions of this article, as a result of providing information

in the situations referred to above in this section, as well as when

such a merchant purchased such a multiple from another merchant, if the

merchant or art merchant can establish that his liability results from

incorrect information which was provided by the consignor, artist or

merchant to him in writing, the merchant who is liable in good faith

relied on such information, the consignor, artist or merchant shall

similarly incur such liabilities as to the purchaser and such merchant.